Politics

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso may have decided to pick his running mate from the South East as he has beamed his searchlight for a running from the area. One of our correspondents learned that this followed sustained pressure from top leaders of the North and chieftains of the party on the flagbearer to pick his former colleague and current Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu The National Coordinator Arewa Youth Peace Initiative AYPI, Yakubu Arigu Muhd who confirmed this told reporters shortly after a meeting in Abuja…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has named Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, among a 128-member campaign council for Osun State Governorship Election coming up on July 16. Announcing the team on Monday, the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party approved the Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri as the Chairman. The PDP came close to winning the election in 2018 but lost out in the run off after a stalemate. Umar Bature, PDP’s National Organising Secretary who signed the statement, said the Council will be inaugurated on Wednesday at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. Wike, who came second during the…

Former member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has ruled out speculations that the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria’s Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso will be a running mate to his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi. Jibrin stated this on Sunday during an interview on Channels Television amid reports that the Kwankwaso is in talks with Obi over a planned merger. He explained that Kwankwaso, who according to him is one of the most popular politicians in the northern part of the country, would garner at least 70% of total votes, stressing that Obi can only poll 30%.…

Socio-political group, Yoruba Council Worldwide, also known as Igbimo Apapo Yoruba Lagbaye, alleged yesterday that Northern political class has concluded plans to scheme the All Progressives Congress, APC, standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, out of the presidential race President-General of the Council, Aare Omoluabi Oladotun Hassan, who disclosed this at a briefing in Abuja, said the Council was reliably informed of the plot to repeat the political treatment meted out on Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief MKO Abiola to pave way for the emergence of Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as president in 2023. According to him, the…

There appear to be renewed plots in political circles around the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s camp to draft Osinbajo back into the 2023 presidential race. Although close aides of the Vice President described this as mere speculation, arguing that their principal won’t be leaving the All Progressives Congress, APC, sources insisted at the weekend that there were active suggestions going on regarding the possibility of an Osinbajo/Kwankwaso ticket on the platform of the NNDP. Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State, is the presidential candidate of NNPP, a new party that seems…

It’s no longer news that tested political heavyweights; Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are the respective presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and All Progressives Congress. But the unprecedented scramble by Nigerians to register and get their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) is a new development . While some activists and civil society groups have floated various initiatives to ramp up the PVC registration and collection campaign, others including clerics have deployed some mobilisation drives many perceive as strange. Last week, the viral video of a Catholic priest who stopped parishioners without their PVCs from entering…

Nigeria is passing through interesting times with exciting political permutations ahead of the 2023 general elections. In Abia State, apart from the governorship election which will determine who succeeds Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, the Abia South Senatorial District election is one election stakeholders are waiting for with spirited zeal. Two political heavyweights in the state, Ikpeazu and Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe will square up for the coveted senatorial seat. Observers say the senatorial election, no doubt, will be a battle of two titans. The two contestants are believed to be battle ready. Obviously, when the election is won and lost, the two…